Fiction 100
Subtitle: an anthology of short stories
By: [compiled by] James H. Pickering.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1086
Subjects: Short stories
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Bound Man / Ilse Aichinger -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- Title / John Barth -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- Looking for Mr. Green / Saul Bellow -- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Astronomer’s wife / Kay Boyle -- August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury -- The guest / Albert Camus -- The country husband / John Cheever -- The bet, The darling, Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov -- The disappearance of Mr. Davenkeim / Agatha Christie -- The Star / Arthur C. Clarke -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain] -- The traveler’s story of a terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Anthony Garstin’s courtship / Hubert Crackanthorpe -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- The grand inquisitor / Fedor Dostoevski -- The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The chicken which became a rat / Albert Drake -- “Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Dry September, The old people, That evening sun / William Faulkner-- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The celestial omnibus / E. M. Forster -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William H. Gass -- The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The house of cobwebs / George Gissing -- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- They can only hang you once / Dashiell Hammett -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- Tennessee’s partner / Bret Harte -- My kinsman, Major Molineux, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The beast in the jungle, Four meetings, The tree of knowledge / Henry James -- The town poor / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Araby, The dead, Ivy day in the committee room / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- They / Rudyard Kipling -- The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence -- One off the short list / Doris Lessing -- To build a fire / Jack London --  A tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- The man without a temperament / Katherine Mansfield -- Little soldier / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- Sredni Vashtar / H. H. Munro (Saki) -- Four summers / Joyce Carol Oates -- The artificial nigger, Everything that rises must converge, A good man is hard to find / Flannery O’Connor -- Guests of the nation / Frank O’Connor -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- The cask of Amontillado, The man of the crowd, The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- The secret room / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- Absolutely elsewhere / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The loneliness of the long distance runner / Alan Sillitoe -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Miss Leonora when last seen / Peter Taylor -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev -- Saint Emmanuel the Good, martyr / Miguel de Unamuno -- A&P / John Updike -- Report on the barnhouse effect / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The country of the blind / H. G. Wells -- The demonstrators, Petrified man, Powerhouse / Eudora Welty -- The second tree from the corner / E. B. White -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright.